A sick Leeds rapist and murderer has been denied parole and will remain in prison.
The parole board said Christopher Farrow, 61, from Cookridge, had "outstanding treatment needs" which needed to be dealt with before he could be released from prison. He has also not been allowed to move to an open prison.
According to a written summary, which was seen by the Daily Mail, the parole panel said "no key report writer could support Mr Farrow's release on parole licence".
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The summary added that Farrow had "outstanding treatment needs" that needed to be "addressed through further interventions". It concluded that any release plan would need to be reassessed after Farrow's outstanding treatment needs had been assessed.
They added that he had undertaken programmes to address his sex offending and had been held under open conditions for a while, but had been returned to a closed prison. The panel also said he had been working with a psychologist and there were no concerns about his custodial behaviour.
Farrow's crime, which he committed aged 33, horrified the country after he forced his way into Wendy Speakes' home on Balne Lane, Wakefield, on March 15, 1994. He tied her up with stockings and forced her to wear a pair of blue mule shoes. This earned him the nickname of the 'shoe fetish killer'.
The 51-year-old was then raped and stabbed to death. Her daughter, Tracey Millington-Jones, has been campaigning for Farrow to remain in jail. She had also called for a public parole hearing, but this was rejected.
At the time, she told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "I am disappointed that the hearing won’t take place in public because it would have given people the chance to see how evil and dangerous he is. It is a shame, because these new rules were brought in so there would be more openness and public understanding around these decisions.
"Farrow has never apologised or shown any remorse for what he has done. For someone to say a public hearing will cause him stress is particularly alarming to me and I’m sure it will be for the general public too.
"If that is going to cause him stress then what else could cause him stress and caused him to re-offend if he is released? It is nothing compared to what me and my family have gone through for almost three decades.
"He doesn’t have the courage to attend a public hearing because he is not sorry for what he has done and people would be able to see that. This case should not be held in private. People should be able to know all the facts around this case. What is being hidden after 30 years?"
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